WEDNESDAY, MAY. 10, 1865
"The printhig presSes shall be free to every
person who undertakes ' to examine the pro
ceedings of the legislature, or any branch of
government; and no law shall ever be made
to restrain the right thereof. The free comtnia
uication of thought and opinions is one of the
invaluable rights of men ; and every citizen
may freely speak, write and print on any sub
ject ; being responsible for the abuse of that
liberty. In prosecutions for the publication of
papers investigating the official conduct of offi
cers, or men in public capacities, or where the
matter published is proper for public informa
tion, the truth thereof may be given in evi
dence."
The Democracy Ready to Support the
New President.
The Democratic press, with great
unanimity, is pledging the Democratic
party to the support of President Johtt
son in every wise and proper effort he
may make to establish a lasting peace
and to bring about a permanent restora
tion of the Union. In so doing, it but
speaks the sentiments of the masses of
the great party to which Andrew John
son has been attached during almost
the whole of his eventful and successful
political life. That party is stronger to
day than any other political organiza
tion in this country. On great princi
ples it is a unit, and its members are
more devotedly attached to it than are
those of any other party. It is bound
together by ties stronger, and infinitely
more enduring, than any pledges of se
cret political associations can be ; more
binding by far than even the oaths of
the Loyal Leagues. The masses have
found it always true to the best interests
Dl'
of the country, always jealous of the
rights of the people, always prepared
and able to conduct the affairs of the
nation wisely, economically, and in
statesman-like manner. Its leaders
have always been distinguished for
their conservatism, for their great po
litical sagacity, for their devotion to the
interests of the masses, for their Ove of
right, for their bold denunciation of
what was wrong. It turns to the his
tory of this country prior to the war, it
holds up the historic record of its past
glories, it points to its triumphs in ma
terial greatness and in political power;
and it claims, justly, and without fear
of contradiction, that all this was the
work of its hands, the legitimate result
of the policy of its leaders, who origi
nated and carried into successful opera
tion every great measure of public policy
which had the sanction of the people of
the United States from the days of
Thomas Jefferson down to the hour of
the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln.
This great party, always so true to the
Union and to the best interests of the
whole country in the past, is ready to
give to President Johnson the most gen
erous support in every wise and judi
cious measure which he may see fit to
employ in rendering peace lasting, and
the restoration of the Union permanent.
It does not ask that he should confer
upon it a single favor. Its members
will not trouble him for offices nor ask
gifts at his hands. Itonly demands that
his policy should be wise, liberal, com
prehensive, conservative, and calculated
to repair the ravages of war, and to heal
the divisions that still exist in our ex
hausted and well nigh ruined country.
Let Mr. Johnson but give the imprac
ticable radical fanatics and their mad
schemes a wide berth, and lie will find
himself warmly supported by thewhole
Democratic party, and by all the con
servative men of his own party. Surely,
with backing like this, he can very well
afford to permit a few extreme men to
rail against him, if they see fit to do so.
He has a splendid chance to make him
self unboundedly pppular, and to rally
to the support of his administration the
best men of all parties in the whole
country. We cannot believe he will
suffer such a glorious opportunity to
pass away unimproved.
Shutting up the Provost Marshals
Offices.
One by one the Provost Marshal's
offices are being shut up. Soon these .
detested institutions will be numbered
among the horrors which have passed
away. The shoulder-straps will be
stripped from officials who have worn
them for years without having faced an
enemy in battle ; and a multitude of
clerks and attaches, numbering, it is
said, not less than 75,000 in the loyal
States alone, will be turned away from
the public crib and compelled toseek an
honest livelihood, or to starve. Poor
wretches, what a come down it will be
for many of them ! They have strutted
a brief hour, bloated with self-conceit,
full of self-importance, and often inso
lent and overbearing in their manners.
How will they ever manage to getilown
to ordinary life again ? Down they
must come though. The days of de
tested conscription are at length over.
Poor men need tremble no longer for
fear they will be dragged by force from
their homes; wives will rejoice to know
that their husbands are at last " out of
the draft," and children will no longer
dread the turning of the "fated wheel."
We hope this country may never see a
Provost Marshal's office opened in it
again. In any ordinary war conscrip
tion never need be resorted to among
our people. Those of the North and
the South will be alike ready to defend
the interests and honor of the nation.
Many have been the strange scenes
witnessed about the Provost Marshals'
offices. There has been brutality and
harshness about most of them, corrup
tion and fraud about not a few of them,
and revolting occurrences about all ,of
them. They have been marts in which
men have openly trafficed in the lives
of human beings. We have seen a
drunken beast of a father, who had al
ready sold one son as a substitute to
satisfy the craving for strong drink,
ready to perjure himself in regard to the
age of another, an ungrown boy, whom
he had bribed to leave home in spite of
the tears and protestations of a heart
broken mother. The miserable wretch
was very eager to effect a sale. The
fact that the son he had sold before had
died of disease contracted in camp could
not move him, the tears of his wretched
wife could not influence him. The
boy's life was worth money, and he was
willing to sell him soul and body. It is
perfectly safe to say, that the various
ProVost Marshals' offices of this State,
and elsewhere, have witnessed more
disgusting dickers in human flesh than
ever disgraced any slave mart in the
South. We are heartily glad they are
to be shut up. The people will never
desire to see them reopened.
The Freedmen
Government has given up the ex
periment of supporting the blacks at
Freedman's Village, Arlington. Work
is offered to all willing to labor, at the
usual prices, and rent is charged them
for their tenements at $4 per month.
All incapable or unwilling to accept
these terms are to be removed to Mason's
Island, near Georgetown. There are
numerous applications from the North
for their services, but it is almost im
possible to induce any of them to
migrate in that direction.
IT is remarkable that all the advo
cates of the dire war in the beginning,
Greeley, Beecher, Gerrit Smith, Wen
dell Phillips, are pleading for a gener
ous condonement of the offense. A
writer in the World thinks the happiest
solution of this difficulty would be to
have Davis and his group get away. As
plotters abroad they could do but little
harm. ~Political refugees are nowhere
tolerated as in the United States. The
Government could, after a lapse of time,
win more respect by a generous and ob
livious amnesty.
The Recent Proclamation.
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President-Johnson ought to get rid of
Stanton, not by appointing John W.
Forney to succeed him, but by the se
lection of some honorable man who
would be a safe counsellor. There can
be little doubt that the proclamation
offering the rewards which have been
put upon the heads of Davis, Sanders,
Tucker and others, was sent out in com
pliance with the direction of Stanton.
The Canadian papers, in discussing
the Proclamation, take a view of it
which shows that the matter was not
well considered by our authorities. It
is clearly proven that no demand can
be made upon the authorities of the
provinces of Canada, under the terms
of the Ashburton treaty, for the delivery
of men who are charged with com
plicity in a crime committed within the
bounds of the United States, while the
parties accused were residing in Cana
da. The Toronto Leader of the sth
says:
If the rewards had been payable in
the case . of capture in Canada, as well
as in the States, innocence would have
proved a poor shield against the machi
nations of base wretches thirsting for
easy gain, and having no more objec4
tion to blood-money than to any other
kind of booty. Though we do not see
that any demand can be made under
the Ashburton treaty, there is some
reason to suspect that an attempt to
kidnap some of the parties may be
made, in the hope that, in this way,
the reward might be obtained. By the
terms of the proclamation, the arrest
must be made in the States ; and by a
subsisting international agreement,
there is only one way in which fugitive
criminals can be placed in the power
of the Government they have offended;
and then they must have committed
the crime in the country by which they
are demanded.
All the Canada papers express their
confident belief in the entire innocence
of the parties accused. It is a pity the
proclamation was made to include
any parties not residents in the United
States at the time the assassination was
committed. Of the whole party for the
apprehension of whom rewards were
thus offered, the only man within the
limits of the Union at that time was Jef
ferson Davis. All the other five were
and had been for months residing in
the British Provinces. The authorities
of those Provinces will feel that they
are justifiable in refusing to deliver
them up to us, and would resist any at
tempt to take them from' their asylum
by force. A proper understanding of
the terms of the Ashburton
treaty would have prevented the
offer of rewards for the arrest of any of
the parties named except Davis. We
hope President Johnson will get rid of
Stanton. He has the reputation of be
ing a good lawyer, but in this case it is
evident that he allowed his passion to
get the better of his judgment, as he has
often done before. He may be a good
lawyer, but the President will besure to
find him an unsafe counsellor. Let him
get rid of him as speedily as possible, if
he would avoid being led into difficul
ties.
Right Sentiments
Horace Greeley says
There is depravity, but no danger, in
the babble of the mad fool who says he
is glad Lincoln is killed ; there is food
for graver thought, there is a call for
sterner reprobation, in the pious sug
gestion that ourgood Presidenthas been
providentially caled hence in order that
the leading rebels may receive that con
dign punishment which his kindness of
heart would have averted.
There is sound philosopy in this, says
a contemporary; but presumption in
guessing at the designs of Providence
has been common in the world, and we
shall, perhaps, never see the end of it.
These people who think they are pious
also admit that they aresinners, and de
serve more than any condign punish
ment man could inflict; and if they
escape at all, it will be from Divine
»u - rey, not justice. When they talk
flippantly of condign punishment,
hadn't they better look a little ahead to
that future retribution in which they
profess to believe, and count up what
they have to look for if condign punish
ment is inflicted on them in that world
to come. The hanging of rebels may
be very grateful to their pious feelings ;
but, after all, it is but death, which they
have to suffer themselves in some way;
and, therefore, how much more suffer
ing will they inflict on rebels than they
must go through themselves? We pre
sume, if the guilty rebel should cheat
his Satanic Majesty at last, and get to a
better world, whilst these Pharisees get
to a worse one, the latter will consider
it very unfair. l'or ought we know, or
they either, this may happen. Upon
the whole, we would suggest that man
had better look to his own ways, and
not undertake to guess at the ways of
God. The latter are certainly all right,
and do not need our supervision ; the
former very doubtful at best. It looks
to us a very bad symptom, when we
flatter ourselves that we only are right
eous, and suggest that God designs con
dign punishment on other people, to
please us.
An Army of 160,000 Men to be Malntatned.
It is said, in Washington circles, that
the army is only to be reduced to four
corps of 40,000 men each, and that two
of the corps are to be negroes. That
would leave the country burthened
with a standing army of 80,000 white
soldiers, and 80,000 negroes. It is esti
mated that every soldier costs the Gov
ernment $l,OOO per annum to maintain
him. Not in depreciated currency but
at gold rates. To maintain an
an army of 160,000 men would involve,
therefore, an annual expenditure of
one hundred and sixty million dollars
in gold.
Is there any reason why the people
should be expected to continue to bear
such an enormous burthen ? We do not
believe there is need of one-fourth of the
proposed army. A wise and concilia
tory policy would bring every Southern
State into the Union within less than
three months, and so firmly estab
lish all relations between them
and the Pederal Government that
we sheuld not need any larger army
than we had before the rebellion began.
To carry out the grand schemes of the
radical fanatics, who are raving about
extended punishmentand sweeping con
fi ieuti on , would necessitate the employ
ment of large and expensive armies;
but the government cannot possibly de
rive anything but detriment from such
a course. We hope President Johnson
will adopt such a policy as will enable
him to reduce the army to the old peace
standard before fall. He can do so if he
will. Whether this is done or not, we
hope no portion of the permanent stand
ing army of the country may ever be
negroes. The people will not care to
have to sustain an army of negro troops,
with whom they can have no sympathy.
lion. S. S. Cox
Hon. S. S. Cox, of Columbus, Ohio,
is about to remove his residence to New
York city. Mr. Cox is a gentleman of
intellectual culture, of sparkling wit, of
generous impulses, and of winning man
ners. He has been a very successful
politician, always outstripping his party
associates on the same ticket, and always
winning many votes through his per
sonal popularity.
A Memorable Spot
On the site selectedfor the "Antietam
National Cemetery" is a spot called
"Lee's Rock," the place where General
Lee stood and directed the battle of
"Antietam." From this point General
Lee had a commanding view of the bat
tle-field, and the headquarters of Gen.
McClellan in the distance.
Necessity, of Bpeedy.lystepstrlictleq, _
In the - gigantic struggle, which - we
are glad to say seems to be very rapidly
drawing to a close, the material re
sources of the contending sections have
been taxed almost to . the uttermost.—
When cahrmess succeeds to the present
excited and unsettlef . condition of the
public mind, the people will be able to
make an estimate of what the war has
cost. Our debt, vast as it IS, will then
be found to be but a mere fraction of the
sum total of the property destroyed. To
pay the interest on the national debt
will tax the industry of the whole na
tion to an extent that will be found to
be:exceedingly burthensome. No man
can hope to escape without leaving a
considerable portion of his earnings In
the hands of the tax-gatherer. All that
the citizen buys will be taxed, all that
he sells will be taxed. We shall be op
pressed by a burthen of taxation such
as no people before us have ever borne.
We are told that the resources of this
country are vast. So they have been,
and so, if a wise policy prevails they
will be found still to be. But we must
not shut our eyes to the fact that the
resources of the nation have been much
crippled by the war. It is true we have
had a season of seeming prosperity in
the North, but, we must riot forget that
the energies of ou r people an d the greater
proportion of the capital of our section,
have all been employed for four years
past in the production of material to be
destroyed in war. All the labor thus
expended, and all the material thus used
up has been lost, substracted from the
average wealth of the nation, and utterly
consumed. Nor is this all. Every
able-bodied man slain has been the loss
of a producer, who would (luring his life
time have annually added to the wealth
of the nation the amount which his labor
was worth in the market.
The South has suffered vastly more
than the North ; and its loss must be
regarded as just so much abstracted from
the wealth of the nation. Its whole
industrial system, so productive before
the war, is now in ruins. It is impossi
ble that we should derive much profit
for some years to come from the fields
whence we drew the vast staples of our
exports in the past. Should the negroes
be left as they are to-day, and the
people of the South at once re
sume their industrial pursuits with all
their energies, it, would be years before
they would be able to produce a crop of
the great staples equal to that raised the
year before the war began. If the slaves
are all to be set free, it will take a still
longer time for labor and capital so to
adjust themselves to the new relations
imposed upon them, as to be able to pro
duce cotton, sugar and rice, to the full
extent of the capacity of the lands and
the labor of the South. Men who are
perfectly competent to judge, are fully
convinced that the emancipation of the
negroes will be succeeded by a very
great and continued decrease in the pro
duction of Southern agricultural staples.
If, in addition to freeing all the negroes,
anything like an extensive confiscation
of lands in the South should be attein pt-
ed, we shall have succeeded in killing
outright the goose that so long laid us
golden eggs. No amount of money, pos
sible to be realized by the government,
from the sale of such estates as it might
confiscate, would begin to compensate
for the great annual decrease in produc
tion which would necessarily ensue.
We take it for granted that President
,ohnson has too much sense to allow
himself to be made a mere tool for
wreaking upon the Southern people the
blind and unthinking revenge of a few
extreme radicals. If he attempts to
gratify them in their mad schemes he
will do so at the expenseof the political
and material interests of the nation
What is now needed is the very speedi
estpossible restoration of all the revolted
States to the Union. 1 7 ntil they resume
their proper relations to the Federal
Government our expenses must neces-
sarily be greater by excess of what they
should be; and the industry of the
Southern States, which is all needed to
enable the Government to meet the de-
mauds upon it, must remain prostrate
A nation cannot afford to sacrifice its
best political and material interests for
the gratification of vengeful feelings.
Least of all can this nation afford to
outrage the whole Southern people, and
to completely destroy their industrial
pursuits, for the purpose of gratifying
the vengeance of a few puritanical
fanatics, and the avaricious longings of
a few skin-flint Yankees.
The Southern people very well
know that there is nothing left for
them but submission. To decent terms
they will submit gracefully, and be
ready to resume their proper place in the
Union at once. Nothing but the mad
dest radical policy can prevent a speedy
return to entire peace and comparative
prosperity. Let the President at once
announce the terms on which the re-
volted States will be received, and let
the terms be such as will best secure the
political and material interests of the
nation. If it be deemed indispensable
that Slavery should be entirely abolish
ed, let it be so declared. What is need-
ed is the speediest possible reconstruc
tion, a disbanding of the armies, and a
return to the most rigid system of re
trenchment and reform. That, and a
careful fostering of all the industrial pur
suits of the whole country, may enable
us to shoulder and bear bravely the great
burthens which the war will be found
to have entailed upon us, and our chi
dren after us
Movement of Jeff. Davis
The movements and whereabouts of
Jeff. Davis, are still shrouded in mys
tery. We have ninny rumors regarding
him; but there appears to be nothing
later which is positively reliable than
the statements published in last Thurs
day's Herald. These located him at
Yorkville, South Carolina, on the 28th
of last month, with General Stoneman's
cavalry only one day in his rear, in
swift and fierce pursuit. Although he
was attended by a considerable body of
rebel cavalry, composed of men of the
most desperate character, to whom he
had promised two hundred and fifty
dollars each for his safe escort, there ap
peared to be then little chance of his es
cape from the just vengeance which
was pursuing him, as, if he endeavored,
by striking across Geogia for the Trans-
Mississippi Department, to elude Stone
man's men, he was liable to fall into
the hands of the equally unappeasable
troopers under General Wilson. One of
our Raleigh correspondents contradicts,
on what he states to be good grounds,
the report that the train conveying Jeff's
stolen specie from Richmond broke
down, and that thearch-traitor had lost
the whole of it. This story was set
afloat by the rebels, probably with the
design of allaying the eagerness of the
national pursuers for the capture of Jeff.
The Originals
We find the following items in the
editorial columns of the New York
Herald of yesterday :
Who were the original fomenters and
instigators of the troubles that have
torn the country by four years of terrible
war and loaded it with its millions of
debt? The nigger traders of the South
and the nigger worshippers of the North.
It is well to keep the truth contaiAd
in the above before the public. The
people should not forget who were the
original instigators of all our troubles,
and each one of the two parties should
be held responsible for their own share
of the blame. Let this be remembered
when the war debt presses heavily, and
when the poor man finds his labor
severely taxed, Whd his family deprived
of many of the comforts of life. ThEi
fanatics of the North and-the South have
been alike guilty. Let them both alike
receive the reprobation of the people
who have suffered so much on their ac
count.
Can Bach Things Be?
Under the above heading the N. Y.
Tribune has some comments upon the
recent proclamation of President John
son, offering large reWards for the arrest
of Jefferson Davis, and several other
prominent rebels, on the charge that
they Were accomplices to the assassina
tion of Mr. Lincoln. We are glad to
see that the. Tribune refuses to follow in
the wake of many of its party cotem
poraries.
It speaks calmly in regard to the af
fair, and utters words of sense and rea
son, instead of indulging in bitter in
vectives and passionate declamation,
which can only excite evil passionl with
out in any way promoting the ghds of
justice. There has been entirely too
much of that kind of thing in this coun
try, especially since the war began. We
are glad to notice that sortie of the more
respectable papers of the Republin party
are becoming alive to the evil which has
thus been wrought. The calm and sen
sible comments of the Tribune on the
recentproclamation is in the rightspirit.
It says:
Until the facts shall have been dis
closed, there will be a natural hesita
tion to believe that the Rebel chiefs de
nounced in our new President's Procla
mation were really implicated in the
murder of his lamented predecessor.
There can be no doubt whatever that
there is " evidence in the Bureau of Mil
itary Justice " that Jefferson Davis &
Co. abetted the assassination of Presi
dent Lincoln; but that evidence has
not yet been traversed, and sifted, and
scrutinized ; and it may be found to con
sist of hearsay tales and the am
bitious outgivings of melo-dramatic
villains of the Wilkes Booth genus.
Innocent letters have often been made
to bear a sinister interpretation in the
light of events undreamed of when
those letters were written ; and uni
versal experience has long since affirmed
the insecurity of judging a case whereof
only one side at most, has been heard.
Assassination is not an American cus
tom. We do not now recall a single
previous case wherein persons of any
note and standing in this country have
conspired to effect a great public end by
this means. Then Davis and Thomp
son have been soldiers, and soldiers emi
nently detest assassins. For the honor
of our country, it may be hoped that
this crime of crimes will not be fastened
on men who have worn all but the
highest honors of the Republic, and
who, prior to the rebellion, had borne
fair personal reputations.
But the natural Improbability of the
charge is hightened almost to incredi
bility when we consider how all but
impossible it was that the Rebellion
should derive any advantage from our
President's death, or even from that of
any half dozen chiefs whom the assas
sins might hope to kiil. It is not now
first ascertained, even in Richmond,
that the loyal millions, and not their
civil or military leaders, have made and
upheld the war for the Union. They
had decided to fight, if need should be,
before either the late President or
his Cabinet had made up their
minds to do so ; and they have gone
through in that spirit, with less depen
dence ou or aid from leadership, civil or
military, than any successful people
ever had in so great a conflict before.—
To kill any half-dozen men on the pre
sumption that this would break down
the National resistance to Disunion, was
a folly, whereof we can with great dffl
culty believe the accused guilty. They
might as rationally have plucked and
destroyed half a dozen heads of wheat
, _
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from a spacious field, and imagine that
they had consigned the owner of that
field to inexorable starvation.
A Record of the Past
The final vote on the Crittenden reso
lutions—a measure which, if adopted,
would have prevented the terrible four
years war in which we were forced to
engage, and saved a million of lives—
was taken in the U. S. Senate on the 2d
of March, LSO. The yeas and nays
were as follows :
YEAS—Messrs. Bayard, Bigler, Bright,
Crittenden, Douglas, Uwin, Hunter, JOHN
SON, of Tenn., Kennedy, Lane, Latham,
Mason, Nicholson, Polk, Pugh, Rice, Se
bastian, Thompson and \Vigfall-19.
NAYS--Messrs. Anthony, Bingham,
Chandler, Clark, Dixon, Doolittle, Durkee,
Fessenden, Foote, Foster, Grimes, Harlan,
King, Morrel, Sumner, Teneyck, Trum
bull, Wade, Wilkinson and Wilson—H.
The above vote will be found recorded
at page 140.5 of the Congressional Globe
of that session. Mr. JOHNSON also, on
the same day, voted for the " Peace
Conference Propositions," along with
Messrs. Crittenden, Bigler, Douglas and
others. See seine page of the Globe.
Such is the record of Andrew John
son on propositions, the success of either
one of which would have saved us from
all the horrors of the war through
which we have passed. It is an honor
able record, one of which he may well
be proud.
A National Cemetery at Antietam
The Hagerstown Mail says :
Among the most commendable acts
of the Legislature of Maryland at its
recent session was the passage of an
Act incorporating a National Cemetery
Company, to be under the control of
each State of the Union, alike, author
izing them to locate, purchase and orna
ment a Cemetery upon the battle-field
of Antietam, in which to re-enter the
remains of the heroes, both Federal and
Confederate, slain in that vicinity. On
the part of Maryland, Thomas A. Boult,
Esq., of Hagerstown ; Dr. Augustus A.
Biggs, of Sharpsburg ; General Edward
Shriver, Of Frederick, and Charles C.
Fulton, Esq., of Baltimore, are ap
pointed Trustees. The title of the cor
poration is "the Antietam National
Cemetery."
The act provides for a Trustee from each
State of the Union, thus affording a Na
tional representation and securing a
National interest in the enterprise. Ten
acres of land have been purchased as
the location of the Cemetery, but the
Trustees have not yet been fully organ
ized as a corporate body.
Let the good people of the land enter
with spirit upon this undertaking, and,
taking the illustribtts dead from their
rude, rough graves in plowed fields,
place them where future generations
may learn and know that they fell un
der their flag and for their country.
We have no doubt the State of Penn
sylvania will take speedy measures to
ensure the gathering up of the bodies of
her brave sons who fell on that great
battle field. There, as elsewhere, the
gallantry of her soldiers did much to de
cide the stubborn contest. Many of
them lie where they fell, in unmarked
graves. Let their remains be carefully
gathered, and deposited in an appropri
ate spot, properly decorated and adorn
ed, in the National Cemetery of An
tietam.
Mir The N. Y. Tribune says it is re
ported in Washington, that Simon
Cameron has been urging the appoint
mentofJohn. W. Forney as Secretary of
War, upon President Johnson. What
a nice little arrangement that would be,
to be sure. Let any man imagine For
ney made Secretary of War through the
influence of Simon Cameron. What
single thing in the whole War Depart
ment would be safe in the hands of
thieves ?
The Greatest Accident of the Age.
Beyond all doubt, the late blowing up
of the steamer Sultana on the Mississip
pi, attended, as it was, by:a loss of 1,400
lives, is one of the greatest accidents re
corded in the annals of time. Nothing
of the kind can be compared to it, save
the burning of the Catholic Cathedral
in Valparaiso, Chili, a year ortwo since.
The magnitude of the horror is perfect
ly shocking and astounding.
Ate" Curran said of the liberty of the
press : "That great sentinel of the State,
that grand detector of public imposture;
guard it, because when it stinks there
sinks with it, in one common grave, the
liberty of the subject and the security
of the crown."
An Indian herb-doctor, knoWn under
the cognomens of Blackburn and Tumblety,
was arrested in St. Louis on Saturday by
order of the War Department. He is sup
posed to be, in some way, connected with
the assassination.
Be Mad and Liberal Toward the Paroled
Prisoners.
There is so much of genuine kindly
feeling in the following letter of a special
correspondent of the New York Trarune,
•
writing from the headqtrarte r rs of Gen
eral
Sherman to that paper; that we
cannot refrain from copying it entire.
We commend it especially to the pe
rusal of all bloody-minded radicals of
the Thad t Stevens school:.
H'DQ's Gmkr. SHERIDAN'S CAV. CORPS,
BEACH'S AND WHITE'S STATION, SOUTH
SIDE R. R., VA., Monday, May 1, '65.
Be kind and liberal toward the paroled
Rebel prisoners. Be guarded, but not
too' suspicious of them. I am daily
touched to the heart by seeing these
poor home-sick '• bon. and exhausted
men wandering about in threadbare
uniform with scanty outfit of slender
haversack and blanket-roll hung over
their shoulders, seeking the nearest
route home.
An occasional fortunate and careful
one has a more or less plump knapsack
on his back—if it may be considered
fortunate to have such an additional en
cumbrance,
under the circumstances.—
They generally wear a care-worn and
anxious look, by theirlanguid, "played
out" manner admitting that they are
vanquished, and by their looks silently
appealing to the magnanimity of the
flushed victors among whom the pass,
which I am glad to say, is generally ac
corded.
Near these, recognizing the usages of
soldiers, they now and then sit down,
weary, hungry, and athirst, and some
times ask for water, that common, cost
less boon of nature; but in their native
pride, poor fellows, though so hungry,
they hardly ever mention bread. This
our brave, thoughtful boys frequently
give them, tears scarcely being re
strained on either side. They sit awhile,
kindly spoken as reconciled brothers,
which they are, inquiring about the
best facilities of getting to their homes,
by good old Federal means or other
wise, and then gathering up their scanty
outfits, such as they are, they trudge
along, sometimes by the old red clay
wagon road, and sometimes by the more
direct railroad ; some limping from the
effects of chafed feet, aided by an im
provised cane, and falling behind the
main squad, if there are more than two
or three of them, to be waited for a lit-
tle ahead.
Many of the poor fellows, if they sur
vive to get there, will find their humble
qmes desolate, with gaunt-eyed want
and poverty sitting on either side of the
lowly portal. It is true that slender
waisted, barefooted childeen, in cotton
frocks, and hollowed-eyed, will run to
meet them, and will clasp around them
and pull them down and kiss them over
again, in their wild joy, and warm hearts
and true, as ever beat in virtuous
woman's breast, but bony hands and
tearful, sunken eyes will receive them
at the door.
No luxurious meal will be spread
such as will greet our brave boys, in
their Northern and Western homes
when they return. And after all their
four years' hard fighting and depriva
tion, in the forced service of ambitious,
bad men, these poor returned soldiers
of the South will have no pocket-books,
plenthorie with "greenbacks," to open
out before their starving families to ex
cite visions, soon to be realized, of
luxury and plenty—no, not even a cent
of current money will they have to buy
bread for those dependent upon them.
Now that our glorious old Union is
restored to prospectively much more
than its former beauty and grandeur,
that our vast rivers and railroads are be
ginning to be thronged with reconciled
brothers and sisters and cousins, pour
ing North and South in happy re-union,
that the cotton and sugar-cane planta
tions and orange groves of the sunny
South are in full commuuion again with
the corn and wheat fields of the North,
that our lately pent-up commerce is be
ginning to bound and leap and rumble
again from the Penobscott to the Rio
Grande, and now that the white-winged
ships, with aromatic cargoes from every
land and clime, are soon to nestle again
at our every port, North and South, let
us have a grand jublilee, and let the
bounty of the North and of the nation
be poured for the current advanced sea
son,' from thousands cornucopias, at the
thresholds of all who have been stricken
or impoverished by the war, North and
South, without regard to section, class,
or color, or antecedents, and thus let a
glorious bond of reconciliation, love and
Union be woven over the land that shall
be as eternal as the people it shall unite
and the continent it shall envelop.
The Soldiers' National Cemetery.
The Gettysburg Star says :
We paid a visit to the Soldiers' Na
tional Cemetery a few days ago, and
give the following as the result of our
observations. The magnitude of this
work, and the advantages likely to ac
crue from it to this community do not
seem to be appreciated by our citizens.
Away from home a more proper esti
mate is placed upon this noble enter
prise, as is evidenced from the fact that
hundreds and thousands of persons
have visited the spot, and will continue
to visit it in years to come, to pay their
respects to the honored dead, who sleep
their last sleep there, and to recall to
mind the greatest battle of the Rebel
lion.
The general management of the work
is in the hands of David Wills, Esq.,
of this place, President of the ssocia
tion, with Mr. Daniel K. Snyder, acting
as Foreman on the grounds. The im
provements are being pushed forward
with the greatest energy, and may reach
a point of completion during the sum
mer.' We understand that upwards of '
60 laborers are now employed in the
various departments, with still room for
more if they could be procured. The
substantial Granite Wall, extending
along the west side is completed, with
the exception of the coping which is
now being put on by Mr. Powers. This
wall, for finish and compactness, chal
lenges the admiration of -all. The
heavy Iron Fence extending from - the
Granite Wall on the west, to Evergreen
Cemetery on the south, is completed
and presents a fine appearance. The
Iron Railing dividing the National
Cemetery from Evergreen, is also
finished.
It is constructed of gaspipe and metal
posts and is to belined with hedge shrub
bery. The Gateway has just been com
pleted and is said to be one of the finest
entrances in the State. The moststrik
ing feature about it is the six massive
Iron Posts, three of which are placed at
either side. Upon each of the two prin
cipal posts is perched the American Ea
gle, majestically looking down upon
those who pass the portals to this sacred
spot. On these posts is also inscribed
in raised letters the names of eaeli
State, whose sons are buried within
the enclosure. The principal Avenue is
undergoing macadamization, and the
trees and shrubbery are being planted,
each one being set and arranged strictly
in accordance with the plot. We un
derstand that about ninety-five differ
ent kinds of trees have been selected for
this purpose, consisting of the choicest
varieties, numbering in all about one
thousand trees. These trees have been
selected, and are furnished through the
agency of Mr. Geo. Peters, of Benders
ville, who is among the most successful
and energetic nurserymen in the .State.
Messrs. Conroy and Hargrave, the con
tractors forsetting the head stones, have
commenced the work, and from present
indications, aremaking a complete job of
it. The material for the National Mon
ument is now being collected, and the
work upon it will be commenced during
the summer. It is to stand in a central
position on the summit, and will be a
beaurifulyiece of work. We published
a full and minute description of this
monument several months ago. The
design can be seen at the office of Mr.
Wills, in Gettysburg. The contract for
its construction, we believe has not yet
been given out. The natural beauty of
the location of this Cemetery, we believe,
is unrivalled anywhere, while art is be
stowing its energies upon it with lavish
hand. Add to this the historic interest
associated with it, and America can pro
duce no spot around which so many
hallowed associations will cluster.
Tho Richmond Mails
Immediately after the assassination
of Mr. Lincoln, by order of Mr. Stan
ton, all transmission of mail matter to
Richmond was stopped. This order has
never been rescinded, and there is now
in the Office at Washington a large accu
mulation of mail matter for that point.
This will explain to parties who have
failed to receive answers to communica
tions the reason for such falure. Proba
bly the order has been forgotten a the
War Department, as there would seem
to be no reason for further suspension
of mail communication in that direc
tion. •
The Atteratit'to Make a-Hero of Corbett.
[From the Albany Evening Journal, May 4.]
It is extremely laughable to see what
rediculous pains are taken for the lau
dation of " Boston" Corbett, who shot
Booth. We are treated to a history of
his early life ; a circumstantial narra
tive of his religious conversion • a
graphic delineation Of his personal
peculiaxties, and a daily bulletin re
specting his present condition and say
ings. It appears that Corbett is a very
eccentric chap. Among his peculiari
ties is that of disobeying orders and
" going it on his own hook "—a quality
not supposed to be the highest element
of soldiership. When Booth was shut
in the burning barn, around which
stood twenty-eight men, waiting for
him to emerge, as he must soon have
done, Corbett was posted at a certain
point, and told to stay there. Instead
of doing so, he made an eccentric move
ment to the back of the building, got a
favorable position beside a crevice, drew
bead on the murderer—a splendid
mark, as he stood motionless in the
glare—and shot him. Perhaps, as one
romantic correspondent asserts, he
"offered up a mental prayer for the
soul of Booth as he pulled the trigger."
All things considered, the assassin could
not, perhaps, have been better disposed
of. But it really is a suggestive proof
of the disposition to manufacture heroes
out of small material, that this rash act
of a disobedient soldier should be made ,1
a pretextfor his glorification ; as though
peculiarvirtues attachedto the incident
of his becoming public executioner,
under such circumstances. Carlyle says,
it is often "the difference between the
question of waiting for hot coffee at
breakfast or drinking it cold, which
makes a man great or leaves him other
wise ;" and the exaltation of Sergeant
" Boston " Corbett furnishes a striking
instance of the philosophic truth of
this statement.
Opening a Store at Petersburg.
A correspondent, writing from Peters
burg, gives the following description of
the opening of a store at Petersburg :
The customers formed a motley col
lection. Ladies representing the upper
tier of Petersburg were jostled by mus
cular females of the contraband persua
sion, who were "spilin''" for their share
of the spoils. Country dames and de
moiselles, who accidentally were in
town at the epoch of the great event,
left unpurchased the groceries, or
crockery, or other wares, which had
formed the original object of their ex
pedition, and carried home instead a
little argosy of calicoes, hoop-skirts,
gaiter shoes, and the various accessaries
of feminine attractiveness. So thorough
ly well-pleased did the fair shoppers ap
pear at the opportunity of resuming
their long obsolete vocation that it
seemed as if they felt more than half
consoled for the presence of the " hated
Yankees " by this agreeable concomi
tant of Yankee rule. How so many
people became possesseil of the needful
cash was a question that suggested itself
to the mind. Doubtless, there was
some long-hoarded gold and silver
drawn from its hiding place, which no
less important occasion could have
called forth. In greenbacks, the poor
were perhaps, better oil' than the rich,
and the majority of purchasers appeared
to be of the former class, the colored
element figuring with considerable
conspicuity. Many of the poorer people
have reopened small groceries, which
hard times had closed for them, or
started "restaurants" on a limited scale,
and aided by tie custom of our soldiers,
are able to take in a moderate amount
of federal currency. But the most ex
tensive purchasers of wearing apparel
apparently belonged to aclass of females
whose occupation places them at the
foot of the social ladder, but who,
nevertheless, seemed resolutely bent on
scaling the topmost height of fashion,
and appeared to be well provided with
the means of doing so.
The Harris Case
The Harris Court-martial progresses
very slowly. The testimony already
taken is that of Sergeant Chapman and
Private Read of the 32d Virginia (Rebel)
Regiment, and tends to show that Har
ris told them not to take the oath of al
legiance, but to go back , and fight the
Yankees again. He gave them money
to return to the Rebel army. When
the killing of Mr. Lincoln was men
tioned, Harris said it was too late tokill
him now, and rebuked them for saying
that Jeff. Davis ought to be killed, too.
Harris said, "Mr. Davis is a gentleman,
and ought to succeed." It is said, also,
but does not yet appear in evidence,
that when Harris heard of the assassi
nation, he threw up his hands and
cried, " Thank God ! this is the happi
est day of my life." On the first day
of the Court, Harris refused to call
counsel, but now is to be defended by
Mr. S. Carlyle. Harris objected to be
ing condemned on the testimony of
Rebels, but Judge-Advocate Winthrop
overruled the objection on the ground
that the accused and the witnesses were
of the same faction. The court met to
day, but was adjourned on motion of
the Judge-Advocate.
The arrival of a Union sergeant, said
to have overheard the conversation
above referred to, is expected to-night
from Point Lookout. The counsel will
be permitted to visit the accused mem
ber of Congress at the Old Capitol.
Andrew Jackson, Jr
A brother of Andrew Jackson, Jr.,
has published the following card :
The notice in the Nashville Dispatch
of the death of my twin brother, An
drew Jackson, Jr., is so exceedingly in
acurate that I must request to have that
portion of the mistakes corrected, which
have been copied into your paper. He
was not the son of Samuel Donelson,
but of Severn Donelson, another broth
er of Mrs. Jackson. His son was not a
Brigadier General. The writer mistook
him, probably, for General Daniel Don
elson (the only brother of Major Andrew
J. Donelson, nominated for Vice Pres
ident), who was a Brigadier General in
the Confederate army, and died more
than a year ago. The Hermitage tract
contained over one thousand acres of
land, five hundred of which have be
come the property of the State of Ten
nessee. The absurd story of the infant
being carried home in a pocket hand
kerchief by General Jackson contradicts
itself, as we were born in the cold month
of December. The truth is the General
was absent at the time, and Mrs. Jack
son wrote to him on the subject of adopt
ing the child. My brother's circle of
acquaintance was so large, and he was
so extensively known, that the account
must have been written by a stranger to
Tennessee, or he would not have had to
draw upon his imagination for his facts.
Governor Alken
It is finally known that Gov. Aiken
is brought here from Charleston for trial
by court-martial for some alleged act
tending to give aid and comfort to the
Rebellion. He is in tolerable health,
but says, I understand, that he has had
four anxious years and is much dis
turbed, and mortified at his present po
sition. He says he has always been a
thorough Union man ; refused to take
any part with the secessionists; declin
ed offices that were offered him and his
friends ; opposed Jeff. Davis at every
step, and has not been to Montgomery
or Richmond since 1860, but staid at
home and waited impatiently for the
end which has now come, and which he
always considered inevitable. He says
he has lost nearly or quite all of his im
mense property, but he takes his losses
philosophically and looks forward to his
trial for that vindication which he is
sure it will bring of himself and his con
sistent loyalty. He is on parole here
and not permitted to speak of the causes
of his arrest. Many of his old friends
here have been to see him. 'The Gover
nor's health is slightly impaired by his
voyage and the novelty of his situation,
but he is as urbane as ever, and does not
look a year older than when a member
of Congress before the war.— Washing
ton Correspondent.
Death from Toothache
• •
Wm. Warner, a tavern keeper at
Clark's Ferry, died this morning of
toothache. He came to this city yes
terday to have a very painful tooth ex-
Witted, but the gums being much
swollen, he was informed by the dentist
that it was impossible to extract it while
in that condition. He returned home,
and suffered very - severely last night,
the pain increased until it crazed his
brain. Death relieved him of his suf
ferings this morning at 6 o'clock.—Pa
tripe and Union.
The Postmaster General has sent an
agent of his department to St. Louis, who
will be there on the 12th inst., to arrange for
the transportation of mails on the MisSia4PPi
river and its tributaries.
The Penalties of GU-Lipped Loya
Leaguelsm.
Fifty Dollars Damages for Calling a Man
a Traitor, and Thirty• Five Thousand
Dollars for Prefering an Unfounded
Formal Accusation of Treason—Mira
bile Dicta I—A Boston jury Rejecting
Great Moral Ideas.
From the Boston -courier, May 4th.]
The newspapers throughout the coun
try are conveying the, grateful tidings
of the important verdict rendered in
the Supreme Court, last Friday, in the
case of Sturtevant vs. Allen. Some of
our distant western cotemporaries, we
perceive, are already commenting upon
it with approbation, and in some cases
with surprise, that such a verdict could
have been agreed upon in. Massachu
setts—in Boston, during times like these.
In this respect, we cannot but think it
is a peculiarly happy circumstance, as
showing that, even in a day of extraor
dinary political excitement, a jury of
our citizens, composed of men opposed
in politics, could disregard altogether
party relations, in obedience to the supe
rior demands of justice and the
claims of law. Certainly, these gentle
men deserve the highest commendation
of their fellow-citizens for such
conscientious discharge of their duty.
Doubtless, they were much assisted in
coming to just conclusions by the im
partial instruction of the able and learn
ed court ; while judicious listeners to
the argument of the plaintiff's counsel
declare, that for irresistible reasoning,
apt illustrations, and touching appeals,
Mr. Sohier's address to the jury has not
often been eqaled. While fens' who
heard or read the testimony in the
case could hesitate as to the rightfulness
of the plaintiff's claim, there were many
who doubted whether really substantial
damages would be awarded, even if the
jury, in times like these, could be in
duced to agree. It is understood, how
ever, there was no essential difference
between them. Happily, agreat wrong
has thus found a prompt remedy, at the
hands of justice; and there can be no
doubt that the decision will redound
very much to the credit of this commu
nity, throughout the country The
jury also wisely discriminated, as it
seems to us, in the different measure
of damages settled upon for the several
counts in the writ. For calling the
plaintiff " a traitor," they assessed dam
ages only in the sum of fifty dollars ;
while for preferring a formal accusation
against him to the same effect, in con
sequence of which he was arrested and
subjected to imprisonment affecting his
reputation, his feelings, and his health
they gave thirty-two thousand five
hundred dollars, a sum certainly not
niggard, though no amount of money
could repair the whole damage done. In
the first respect, they may have thought
that the opprobious term in question
had been so carelessly, as well as too
often maliciously, applied, in party
heat, to men of the highest character
for patriotism and integrity—formerly,
for .example, to so pure a man as Gen.
McClellan, and more recently to an offi
cer so distinguished as Gen. Sherman—
that it had lost much of its injurious
forces ; and a slight mulct in damages,
therefore, would be asufficient reminder
to the defendant and others, that they
could not thus trifle with the reputation
of their neighbors. The other count
was based upon more serious considera
tions ; and to this the jury applied the
smart money which they deemed the
propriety of the case required.
The influence of this verdict in vin
dicating the supremacy of the law, and
in checking not only slanderous impu
tations, but outrages of every kind re
sulting from political antagonism, will
be widely felt, and the example has al
ready been most salutary. When men
become sensible that, sooner o. later,
they will be called upon to pay in dam
ages for unjust accusations and violent
proceedings, and that they cannot es
cape such consequences, whenever the
law resumes its rightful dominion, they
will pause. We are glad to observe the
attention which the case has excited
elsewhere ; and could wish that a full
report of the trial might be published
and widely circulated,
Gerrit Smith to President Johnson
Mr. Gerrit Smith, another leading
abolitionist, follows in the wake of Wen
dell Philips in opposing the application
of capital punishment to the rebel lead
ers. He has written a letter to Presi
dent Johnson, from which hereunder
we copy some extracts. It will be ob
served that he takes the same ground as
Mr. Phillips, declaring that, after hav
ing treated with the Confederates as
enemies, it would be " bad faith " to
treat them otherwise now. There is
evidently a wide difference of opinion
in the radical party on this question,
and it will be interesting to see which
prevails. The following is the gist of
Mr. Smith's letter :
PETERBORO', April 24.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON : Honored and
Dear Sir :—Only ten days ago and the
country felt sure of an immediate peace.
The only apprehension was that its
terms would be easier than it was pru
dent to grant. To-day there is a strong
and wide spread fear that peace is afar
off. Whence this great change ? It
come from the assassination of Abraham
Lincoln, and from your taking his place.
*ar *
But why should not government re
fuse to adopt, or, even for one moment,
to listen to this rigorous and bloody
policy ? Why should not government
deal with the conquered in this war as
it would deal with Mexico? The answer
is—because it is a civil war. But is it
not such a civil war as the ablest public
ists hold should be conducted by the
rules of international war
God forbid that now, when the tide of
war sets strongly in our favor, we should
be guilty of thrusting the Constitution
into the place of the code of war, and of
holding and trying as traitors those
whom we (none the less really, if in
directly) agreed to regard but as ene
mies ; and whom, by all the conclusive
reasons of the case, aside from such
agreement, we are bound to regard in
that light only. We must not be guilty
of this bad faith. We must not break
this solemn bargain. The South would
hate us for it! And would not the
North herself, if not despising us for it,
be, at least, fearfully divided in regard
to it? Greatly should we all love our
country: But there is one thing we
should all love more—and that is fair
dealing. "Our country right !"—not
" our country right or wrong !"—should
be our motto.
It must not he forgotten that it cost
our nation many years, many lives, and
thirty or forty millions of dollars to put
an end to the guerilla war carried on in
Florida by a handful of Indians and
negroes. I have glanced at the painful
consequences of a harsh and unfair
treatment of our conquered enemy.
But how blessed would be the conse
quence of a wise and kind treatment
of that enemy ! Then the South would
be at peace with the North; would soon
learn to like her; and would soon wel
come the tens of thousands of families
that would immediately begin to emi
grate from the North to the South.
Then the North and the South (slavery
having passed away,) would rapidly
become one in interest, and one
also in character. Moreover, the whole
work would be blest by the termination
of this most horrid war in a peace so
full of reason, justice and love. Christi
anity would be honored and advanced
by a peace made so strikingly in her
own spirit. In that spirit we cannot
shed one drop of the blood of our sub
dued foe. If possessed of it, we shall
forgive and forget the wrongs done to
the North ; and shall feel that the South
has suffered enough, and that she de
serves to be soothed and comforted, and
no more afflicted, by us. Largely on
your wisdom and magnanimity do I
found my warm hope of seeing this war
give place to bloodless, kind, forgiving,
and therefore immediate peace. But
this is not all for which I look
to you. Now, whilst we have
this fresh sense of one of the worst wars
—now, whilst we can contrast its ugli
ness with the beautiful peace, which,
unless we thrust it from us, is just at
hand—now is the time for our na
tion to be the first of all nations to pro
pose an end to national war by means
of an international Congress, whose de
cisions upon the disagreements and
controversies between nations shall be
final. Yours be the glory to favor a
measure fraught with more honor to
God and more happiness to man than
any or even all other measures ! Yours
be the glory of identifying your admin
istration with the cause of international
peace!
th great regard, your friend,
GERRIT SMITE
-11 is reported that the armistice between
Generals Dana and fteOgerii 4 Vicksburg
was to expire on May 3.
Carrying. Out the Terms of JOblisPnl's
Surrender. ' •
RALE/GEL . ; N. C.,Jslay 2, 1865.
THE PAROLING OF JOHNSTON'S ARMY.
General Sherman having completed
the terms of surrender with General
Johnston, left it to General Schofield
to carry them out. Brigadier-General
Hartsuff, accompanied by several depu
ties, went to Greensboro on the 29th,
with the paroles to be distributed to the
rebel army. On the evening of the 20th
Generals Hardee and Anderson came to
Goldsboro, and remained guests of
General Schofield for the night. The
next morning Generals Schofield, Cox
and Kilpatrick, and the Fourteenth
Ohio regiment and band, returned with
them to Greensboro, where they arrived
in the evening. The next day General
Hartsuff's deputies collected most of
the rollso When completed, close on
thirty thousand, including all branches
of the service, 'will be paroled. Thous
ands had broken for theirhomes, carry
ing their arms and taking all the horses
they could find. These are pillaging
and plundering the country and com
mitting all kinds of depredations. On
this account the proportion of arms,
horses and flags turned over is small.
We have about 110 pieces of artillery.
They Were allowed to retain one-fifth
of their small arms to protect them
selves; also sufficient wagons for trans
portation. Johnston's army has by this
time broken up. The greatest courtesy
and harmony characterized the whole
proceedings.
JOHNSTON'S ADDRESS TO HIS MEN.
Johnston issued the following ad
dress to his army:
(;encral Orricrs—o. 22
HILADQ'S, ARMY OF TUE TENNESSEE, t
NEAR GREENSBORO, May 2, IStl5,
COM RADES—ID terminating our offi
cial relations I expect you to observe
the tern tai of the pacification agreed
upon, and to discharge he obligations
of good and peaceful citizens to the
powers as well as you have performed
the duties of soldiers in the field. By
such a course you will secure comfort
and restore tranquility to your country.
You will return to your homes with the
admiration of our people, won by the
courage and noble devotion you have
displayed in this long war. I shall
always remember with pride the loyal
support you have given me. I part
from you with regret, and bid you fare
well with feelings of cordial friendship
and with earnest wishes that you may
Prosper. J. E. JOHNSTON, Gen.
J. E. KENNAIaD, Colonel, &c.
General Sherman's Order Announcing
the Final Surrender of Johnston's
Army.
SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS-NO. B 5
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IN THE FIELD, NEAR RA LEI(m, N. C.
April 27, 150.
The general commanding announces
a further suspension of hostilities, and
a final agreement with General John
ston which terminates the war as to the
armies under his command and the
country east of the Chattahoochee.—
Copies of the terms of convention will
be Furnished Major Generals Schofield,
Gillmore and Wilson, who are specially
charged with the execution of its details
in the Department of North Carolina,
Department of the South, and at Macon
and Western Georgia. Captain Casper
Myers, Ordnance Department, United
States Army, is hereby designated to re
ceive the arms, &e., at Greensboro, and
any commanding officer of a post may
receive the arms of any detachment and
see that they are properly stored and
accounted for.
Gen. Schofield will procure at once
the necessary blanks and supply the
other army commanders, that uniform
ity may prevail ; and great care must
be taken that all the terms and stipula
tions on our part are fulfilled with the
most scrupulous fidelity, while those
imposed on our hitherto enemies be re
ceived in a spirit becoming a brave and
generous army.
Army commanders may at once loan
to the inhabitants such of the captured
mules, horses, wagons and vehicles as
can be spared from immediate use, and
the commanding generals of armies may
issue provisions, animals or any'public
supplies that can be spared to relieve
present wants and to encourage the in
habitants to renew their peaceful pur
suits and restore relations of friendship
among our fellow citizens and country
men.
Foraging will forthwith cease, and
when necessity or long marches compel
the taking of forage, provisions, or any
kind of private property, compensation
will be made on the spot, or when the
disbursing officers are not provided with
funds vouchers will be given in proper
form, payable at the nearest military
department.
By order of •
W. T. SHERAIAN,
Major General
L. M. DAYTON, Ass't Adj't Gen.
A Modest Manifesto
MONTREAL, May 4, 18135.
To ANDREW JOHNSON, President of
the United ,S'eates : Your proclamation
is a living, burning lie, known to be
such by yourself and all your surround
ings, and all the hired perjurers in Chris
tendom shall not deter us from exhibit
ing to the civilized world your hellish
plot to murder our Christian President!
We recognize in many of your most
distinguished Generals, men of honor,
and we do not believe their association
even with you, has so brutalized them
as to prevent their doing justice to a
public enemy under such grave charges.
Be this as it may, we challenge you to
select any nine of the twenty-five Gen
erals that we name, to form a Court
martial for our trial, to be convened at
the United States Fort, at Rouse's Point,
or any other place, that you will not
have the power to incite the mob to de
stroy us, en route:
Gens. Scott, Grant, Sherman, Meade,
Rosecrans, Howard, Burnside, Hancock
Hooker, Schofield, Wright, Dix, Cad
wallader, Emory, Blair, Pleasanton,
Logan, Steele, Peck, Hatch, Franklin,
Rodman, Alexander, Carr, Reynolds
and Meagher. The money that you
have so prodigally offered to have the
unoffending neutrality of a neighboring
States violated by cthe unwarrantable
seizure of our persons, to be paid over
to defray the professional and other ex
penses of our trial, to the lawyers that
we shall designate, and who are in no
wise to be prejudiced in our defense.
Our witnesses also to have the fullest
protection against us in your proclama
tion, we are to be permitted to return
under safe conduct.
In conclusion we. say we have no ac
quaintance whatever with Mr. Booth, or
any of those alleged to have been en
gaged with him. We have never seen
or had any knowledge in any wise of
him or them, and he has never written
us a note, or sought on interview with
us. GEORGE N. SANDERS,
BEVERLY TUCKER.
The Plot to Burn Philadelphia a Hoax
Got up by the Prize Fighters.
A special despatch from Washington
to the Philadelphia Press gives the fol
lowing almost. ludicrous account of the
real origin of the report that Philadel
phia was to be burned. It seems that a
set of prize-fighters had the whole sen
sation story gotten up, that the public
might be too fully employed to interfere
with a couple of " mills" which were
on hand, and which did in consequence
come off without interruption. The
despatch to the Press says :
Some of the sensation papers of your
city have, I see, been making a great
deal out of what is supposed to have been
a plot to burn your city. While it is
believed that the provisions of the au
thorities against danger of any and
every kind are no doubt right and pru
dent, there are many well-informed
people who are inclined to look with a
little doubt on some of the statements
in the long circumstantial telegram
published in some of the journals yes
terday. It has even been asserted that
the alarm was created in the interest of
the prize-fighters who honored your su
burbs with two of their brutal exhibi
tions a day or two ago. Their object,
it is argued, was to employ the police
force then guarding the city, while they
pursued their calling quietly and un
disturbedly.
Gen. Schofield has issued an important
order in North Carolina with a view to the
more effectual carrying out of President
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. He
notifies all former masters that these ne
groes are now free, and advises that they
retain their servants by paying them fair
compensation. He also tells freedmen to
accept such paid service, and itr all ways to,
deport themselves worthily of their new,
condition.
—Telegraph lines have been pat in, order,
between Cahn and Memphis,, and betWee4
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